1/ Oh good. Twitter’s going to label misleading and/or fictional #COVID tweets. @jack, you can start with @bessbell’s panic porn classic from May 3 - now retweeted 71,000 times. In the initial tweet, Ms. Kalb wrote her father is a physician “treating COVID-19 patients...” h

2/ She then went through a gory thread of all the horrors he had seen in a single week. Later, she clarified that he was actual practicing telemedicine in “rural Louisiana” and “southern New Jersey” and that he worked “4 am to noon.” So here’s the thing.

3/ Dr. Jeffrey Tomaszewski is a physican at Cooper University Hospital, the only Level One trauma center in South Jersey; it was named by the state to run the medical system response for the region. Dr. Tomaszewski said he has no idea what Bess is talking about...

4/ He is unaware of any ICU telemedicine being practiced in southern New Jersey, and the hours Ms. Kalb mentions are not a typical hours for an ICU shift. Further, none of the details she wrote about matched anything he had heard. “The tweets seemed absurd,” he emailed me...

5/ To be clear: No physician in Louisiana has discussed Ms. Kalb’s tweets with me; theoretically, the events in them could have happened only there. That said, given what Dr. Tomaszewski says on the record, I ask @jack to ask Ms. Kalb if she has any actual supporting evidence.

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